“It will be nice to get a little break here for me and hopefully we can get some injuries resolved and come back with a better game next game. But I could have done better tonight and obviously I wasn’t good enough, and [that’s] the reason we lost the game.”

A look at the standings shows the top two teams in the Western Conference are even closer after tonight.

The Blackhawks, thanks to that historical start to the season, are still tops in the West with a 24-3-3 record and 51 points.

The Ducks entered the game five points back of Chicago. They’ll wake up Thursday only three back, and with a record of 22-3-4, and a game in hand.